Margriet Spijker is general manager of private Dutch staffing firm Timing, a part of the ADG services group. According to research from SIA, Timing is the sixth-largest staffing firm in the Netherlands. Spijker joined the company as a consultant in 1988 and held various management positions, including deputy manager, before being appointed general manager in [...]
Ann Swain has been the CEO of the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) since 1999 when it was established as a trade body focusing on technology staffing companies. In 2009, the organization broadened its offering to provide specialist support and a voice for recruitment firms operating in professional staffing sectors in the UK and [...]
Hiromi Tazaki is chairman of the JAC Recruitment Group and CEO of the Tazaki Group, which founded JAC Recruitment in London in 1975. Tazaki co-founded JAC Japan in 1988 and was appointed CEO of the company’s Japanese business in 2011. With a banking background from the city of London, Tazaki expanded the recruitment business overseas.
Tracy Thomson founded Finite Recruitment in Australia in 1998, having relocated from the UK in 1997. Through a mixture of organic growth and acquisition, Finite grew into a network of seven offices across Australia and New Zealand. In 2003, Thomson founded FinXL IT Professional Services on the back of growing customer demand to offer a [...]
Chihiro Ueda was appointed president of Recruit Holdings’ HR Technology Fund in January 2015. In addition to her role as fund manager, Ueda was also appointed an executive manager of Recruit Holdings and has been one of the company’s key players in its investment and M&A activities. Ueda first joined Recruit in 1999 and since [...]
Anke Ulens has been managing director of Vivaldis Interim in Belgium since 2009. Founded in 1991, Vivaldis operates almost 50 offices across Belgium. Ulens started her career in recruitment in 1995 when she joined Randstad as a key account manager. In 2001 she became a sales manager for SD Worx, before joining USG HR as [...]
Carmen Watson joined Pertemps in 1976 as a secretary and by 1983 had progressed to the boardroom as commercial director. From 1983 to 2000, she was responsible for the formation of a corporate business team and turnover grew tenfold from £32m to £323m. In 2000, Watson was named managing director and then became chairperson in [...]
Michelle White is the head of Pertemps Managed Solutions, a provider of workforce talent acquisition solutions. She has overseen the growth of the business to become a £400m business with 250 offices across the UK. In addition, White has more than 20 years’ experience of working for parent company Pertemps, 14 of which have been at [...]
Anna Wicha is president of Polski Forum HR (formerly the Association of Temporary Employment Agencies), which promotes ethical conduct and high quality service in Poland’s employment industry. Her career in recruitment started in 2000 when she joined Adecco as a sales consultant. Quickly scaling the corporate ladder, Wicha was promoted to country manager of Adecco [...]
Christine Wright was appointed as managing director of Asia in April 2012, the latest function in her extensive 20-year career with Hays. She is responsible for the day-to-day operational management and growth of the businesses in Japan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and India. Since 2012, the Asia region has doubled in revenue and has [...]
